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Dave Eberhardt (poured blood on draft files with him in 1967- the “Baltimore 4” action)

if we say- don’t pick on the soldiers they just had a job to do- they were just trying to get training in computer or trying to escape the bsack woods of arkansas- i say- we demean them- they are capable of resisting just like anyone- persons who make guns can switch jobs!

“Hi from the Unknown Soldier. I threw away my rifle and went swimming.

You may have seen me slipping away from the column. Shsssssh.

If in a desert “theatre” I leave to go look at the night sky with all its stars- Aldeberan (sp?), Rigel, Spica, Eta Carinae.

I am a statue to the Noble Deserter in the park.”

Want to join us? Then practice non-violence, resist war, and don’t forget to move to the left.

Thank you for your feedback. The soldier’s job is to follow orders and protect his people. The people’s job is to be mindful and protect the soldiers; lest they should end up on opposite sides while behind the same lines.

I have friends who come back from Iraq and they are expected to act “as though nothing/and no one has been bombed.” I fear we’ve not yet seen the impact of what Iraq has done to our men and women; but in silent times, when no one else is looking, I’ve seen it.

“as though nothing/and no one had been bombed”

Such sad, true lines.

You give voice here to that which deserves voice but that which is also too scared (or scarred) to speak.